Fuel presents
Sound&Fury's Going Dark
Written by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury

How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores of the universe to a far away galaxy? It’s Max’s job to ask the cosmic questions. Passionate about astronomy, he works as the narrator at the city’s Planetarium where he challenges his audiences with the mysteries of stars and science.

When his own life takes an unexpected turn, Max discovers that understanding the universe requires a different kind of vision...

Sound&Fury use their innovative theatre vocabulary of immersive surround sound design, total darkness and imaginative lighting in Going Dark to reawaken our wonder at the cosmos and reveals how one man’s vision becomes illuminated by darkness.

Going Dark is being made with the award winning young designer selected in collaboration with The Linbury Prize for Stage Design in 2009, Aleš Valášek.

We have benefitted hugely from consultation with our scientific advisor in visual hallucinations, Dr Dominic ffytche, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London. This collaboration was made possible thanks to funding from a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

“…manages to marry the best aspects of such dazzling text-based plays as Stoppard's Arcadia and Frayn's Copenhagen, which make profound use of science as metaphor, with state-of-the art deployment of theatre-as-atmosphere techniques.”